The most original alien ship design ever created. Something about the shape of it is just haunting. Still thinking about it to this day brought me back here.
It's the odd lack of symmetry and any recognizable features like propulsion systems, windows, etc. It's just not a vehicle that human beings would ever build. Utterly brilliant design from Giger.
Totally agree. One of the most innovative and haunting designs of all time. Its sheer size, obvious asymmetry and organic appearance always give me the creeps. It almost looks like another character, a long dead giant that foreshadows the horrors to come. Add to that the brutal and hellish environment of LV426 (world-building at its finest) and you come up with cinematic perfection.
@@Plathismo You can say similar things about Xenomorph. Lack of eyes, very long head, the way facehuggers plants the embrio in host body ...sexual subtexts and horror like nothing else you seen, nothing you can compare this to.
Alien is a masterpiece! It's just absolutely flawless. Just how it establishes the mood, tone and atmosphere is another level. You can tell that this film was a labour of love.
It actually does have a couple minor flaws. It's all good though. My favorite movie of all time. Anything you love, you forgive for its imperfections. Love in spite of, and because of.
@@darioinfini What flaws are you thinking of? The two that bothered me were no mention of artificial gravity and the fact that the chestburster grew to the size of a man without apparent food source.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 You know that scene where Ash beats the crap out of Ripley? He knocks her out and he's standing there twitching as the cameraman slowly walks around him. And he walks straight back into the hanging decoration which appears in full camera view and is now twinkling, which catches Ash's attention. It's a spooky creepy scene, but it's an error. Also the whole extended procedure to get into Mother's chamber but when Ripley is "getting her own answers", Ash suddenly appears without all the hoopla, like he quietly was able to gain access without the button presses, door whooshes, spinning chair, etc. Other small nits. Things you only notice after thousands of watchings LOL. Don't care, love the film.
@@darioinfiniAh, yeah I have always wondered how Ash just 'appeared' in the computer room like that. Totally great from a dramatic standpoint, but unbelievable. Not sure I understand what you mean about the twinkle thing but I'll rewatch it. I thought of another: the way the alien grabs Dallas looked pretty amateurish. I much preferred Lambert, Parker's and Brett's deaths; less is almost always more. I have been loving all these behind the scenes/deep dive videos on Alien lately. It's an undisputed masterpiece and aside from very few mistakes a true science fiction film.
"We've gone this far, we must go on.... we have to go on...." This scene... those words.... always gives me chills. RIP Kane. RIP John Hurt. I loved everyone in this cast. Half of them are gone now. Greatest scifi horror movie ever made.
Kane is honestly such an overlooked character... he's the sacrificial lamb but just as important as the rest of the crew and part of the literal catalyst for the entire film. He was one of the ones who most did not deserve to die and especially not like that. John Hurt was PERFECT, he was a phenomenal actor RIP and pancreatic cancer is a bitch. The scene where he wakes up from the Facehugger is such incredible acting... those facial expressions. So many people who were so instrumental to Alien are gone now, not just the 4 cast members... Helen Horton (Mother voice), Baleji Badejo (guy in Alien suit), O'Bannon + Shusett, HR Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, John Mollo (costume designer), Jerry Goldsmith - literally everyone involved is/was legendary and may they rest in peace. Oh and Jonesy cats.
Mine too. Especially the music, and the subtle quieting of the storm that was roaring when they left the ship.its as if the weather was holding its breath.
Masterful film making. The first sight of The Derelict is the first time most of the audience would have been exposed to Giger's biomechanical design; a dark, decaying, grotesque, vaguely phallic parody of The Millennium Falcon. lambert wants to turn back. Kane wants to press on. Dallas tries to keep them together. The three of them trudge forward, the shots, cuts and sound-score synchronised like a slow, heavy heartbeat. Tension and menace and a sense of an encounter with something "alien" in every sense of the word. Got to hand it to Ridley Scott and his production crew. Sheer brilliance.
For me, the genius of the derelict design lies in its lack of symmetry. Human beings would never build a ship that looked like that. It just looks wrong. You have no idea which end is up or which direction it would travel in. Utterly brilliant.
But the story line and script were not Scott's. Dan O'Banon et al had already been doing several revisions (years earlier) and 'Star Beast' was the original title by the time R Scott was brough in to take the helms. All the elements of that movie were original, masterfully crafted and left all the important bits hidden, yet gave hints in plane sight to add to the mystery and awe (that blue mist for example). The fact that the Space Jocky was described as 'being fossilized', or that the pilot and the seat were fused together, the whole 'biomechanical' aesthetics and concept was based upon 1970's Sci-Fi lore. (no one here is probably old enough to remember the amazing monthly magazine called Omni? Well these kinds of concepts were often discussed and many artists, sci-Fi authors and real scientists were regular guests. That movie just took Sci-Fi to another level that has not yet been reacher nor breached, nor will it be in our lifetimes, imho.
Watched the movie in 1979 when it first came out at the movie theater. I just graduated from Merced High School .It scared the blank out of me.I had to cover my eyes a few times.
The atmosphere (pun intended), the music, the design... utterly impeccable. No extraterrestrial landscape in film has ever been so unsettling and inhospitable.
LV426 was incredibly well done. A truly alien world and full of details (starting with its location, beyond the Outer Rim, even far away for 22nd century standards): brutal winds, extremely dense and cloudy atmosphere, a sun that barely shines like our moon… man, those shots in the distance where you can see the clouds moving, the ever present sound of the wind blowing (if in the background), those weird-shaped, battered lava rocks or even the volcanic gas emanations… not to mention the geniality of making it a moon orbiting a gas giant. Everything is just amazing.
After visiting Giger's museum in Switzerland...it's pretty apparent that the derelict was once a living organism. What they find here is the skeleton. Prometheus offended me in so many ways...but their lack of imagination for the ship and the engineers, was perhaps their biggest crime. Alien really is a genius piece of film making.
You could be correct. I like to think the engineers built the ship on the remains of some gigantic monsters, it will explain the organic outlook, and engineers live inside this body like parasites in a dead body.
I actually think there will never be a great film after Alien. Aliens doesn’t hold a candle to this film. While aliens is very good, it has more flaws that people attribute to it.
Aliens is the Micheal Bay of the franchise. I liked it but I think Resurrection, Prometheus and even covenant was better. I like the scifi wonderment and lore, not redundant horror slasher shi.
@@ALJ9000 true. Capitalism isn’t bad, albeit not perfect either, but whoever runs it can have an impact on whether the outcome is positive or negative.
@@Crazylegoman3791 Dude, literally any system can be corrupted by tuning the people running the system. Socialism, capitalism, communism, all of it. None of them are inherently corrupted, though I guess some have the tendency to be corrupted.
Good job making it so poorly lit. A planetoid on the outer part of its solar system would be frigid and in perpetual twilight. It definitely adds to the creepiness of the scene. I love John Hurt's sudden "We have to go on!" like he must meet his doom.
This was visceral film making. I was utterly fascinated by that ship well before learning about the artist responsible thanks to Alien 3. He brought back the essence after the second outing made it too clinical.
Lambert: "Let's get out of here." There was so much foreboding up until the facehugger attacked. Everything felt doomed about this mission. When the atmosphere speaks for itself, you know you've got a good movie.
The score, in all its simplicity, does TONS for the mood. The whole film, for all its detailed aesthetic, is basically very simple. And it works miracles.
The late Ian Holme as Ash RIP. That is 3 actors now who have died from the original Alien movie...John Hurt as Cain Harry Dean Stanton as Brett and now Isn Holme. Alien is one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever...wish Scott hadn't fucked it up with Prometheus and Covenant.
First movie i was 16, it was like a religious awakening when seeing the first one, I watched it 9 times in a few weeks, as soon anybody said they were going to watch i did to!
Yeah I think the rest of the movie kinda ends up hitting some cliches. Still scary in parts but seemed like they weren't so sure about what to do like with this first half.
The budget for this film was 11 million dollars. Let that sink in. 11 million and it destroys any other movie made in the franchise for the last 45 years.
Фантастика, которая перевернула почти что всё и в сторону серьёзности и в плане эстетики и в плане поднимаемых и затрагиваемых тем именно в кино. Понятно, что и посерьёзней темы уже все затронуты были в литературной фантастике ещё с ребежа 60-х. Но именно в кино - именно - эта работа.
This movie, in my opinion, is quite the masterpiece. The film makers saw the huge potential to make money by making it a series, however, and it was launched. In my opinion, this movie should have been it. No Aliens, or Alien vs. Prometheus, etc. This movie made a huge impact just by itself and it should have been the first and final chapter on the subject. Anyone else agree?
@@spoopy9689 Cameron abandoned Giger's explanation of the Alien life cycle and totally wrecked the story. He wanted to do Heinlein's Starship Troopers using xenomorphs, and that's what he did.
As far as I'm concerned that's pretty much how it is. I will also admit i love the way they used certain abandoned elements of the original Alien story to make Prometheus, but nothing comes close to the first movie and all the sequels suck. Including Cameron's Starship Troopers inspired movie.
Alien is a flawless masterpiece and is the gold standard for horror films. Aliens was a good movie, but it was of a completely different genre than the original: an action film rather than a pure horror film. Everything after Aliens in the series was pure trash.
'Aliens' is great and brings some nice emotional closure to Ripley's story, but I agree that the original is a timeless masterpiece that didn't need any sequels. And if sacrificing 'Aliens' is the price of never having had to endure Alien3, Resurrection, AvP, Prometheus and Covenant... then, yeah, I'd probably make that trade.
I think that Lambert was totally on point and quite right; they should have just returned back aboard the Nostromo, at that point (when three of them were walking on the surface of the celestial body), regardless of contractual stipulation (total forfeiture of shares/salary).
You realize that the moment they actually saw the ship, they had fulfilled their contractual obligations. All they had to do was make sure it wasn't going anywhere, then report back and let the company send a properly trained and equipped expedition.
@CAS671 The company could have had lay claim to a ship built with alien technology containing hundreds of specimens of an exotic species while their layers kept their competitors locked out, and they decided instead to risk immense legal retribution for just one specimen? Either the board of directors were so stupid they should have run the company into the ground within a year, or Special Order 937 was the idea of someone a bit further down the chain of command.
It's embarassing how Scott has failed to replicate completely the tension and mystery of this film, and instead thought androids with god complex and idiotic crew are the way this franchise should go. Edit : Given how the fans of these movies have room temperature IQ, no wonder we got them.
I don’t think either of those things could necessarily be attributed to Scott. The larger scale world building began with James Cameron in Aliens, and both Scott and Cameron conceived Prometheus. So unless I’m missing something it seems like those themes were more of Cameron’s brain child when you weigh their creative style
If the cat's out of the bag, you cannot put it back in. Aliens are not frightnening anymore, now that they are in the superstar-league of film monsters. Nevertheless, I found Prometheus to be a very good movie, as it hints at abigger context and not just focused on another rampage of aliens. And the nostromo command crew are idiots as well: 1. No captain joins an away mission, in order to evade hierarchy conflicts in an emergency situation. 2. Kane inspects into the egg-cave alone. 3. the captain is OK with breaking quarantine protocol endangering crew, ship and cargo just because he looses grip on his emotions. 4. Dallas lets others question his authority in his presence twice (Ripley/Parker) without any reaction. 5. Dallas goes alien hunting alone - no wonder the creature got him.
@@sigurdkaputnik7022 This comment reeks of so much stupidity, it's hard to tell whether it's hilarious or embarassing. By your assbackwards "logic", then there shouldn't be any Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Predator because they're too recognizable. What nonsense is that ? The moment you said Prometheus is a very good movie is when you lost any credibility. Yes, it has interesting themes, but it doesn't go beyond that. It's a hollow, pretentious yet super generic movie that relies so desperatedly on sequel bait. The "hints at a bigger context" never pay off because the movie AND its sequel are too lazy to delve into them. The Engineers are nothing but a generic evil alien race with no real motivation. I find it hilarious that you praise Prometheus for not being just focused on alien rampage, when it does EXACTLY that and with at least 3 different types of alien within the same movie. Double standards much ?
@@sigurdkaputnik7022 And your "points" against Alien are complete strawmen arguments. 1. According to what ? By your logic, then Neil Armstrong shouldn't have landed on the Moon. 2. Okay, that stupid, but these, unlike Prometheus, aren't scientists, they're blue collar workers, space truck drivers, delivering ore to Earth. And even then, how being accompanied would have helped ? In fact, Dallas and Lambert could have also got infected that way. 3. Now you're contraddicting yourself, first you accuse Dallas of leaving his post, now you accuse him of trying to override protocols to save a crewmember. And besides, Ash was the one who let him in, on purpose. 4. They're not military or scientists, plus if a crew is experienced enough, you do listen to others for advice, and again.....Weren't you just complaining about him not respecting protocols that said crewmembers were reminding him of ? 5. He had a flamethrower, crewmembers had to check the scanner, and so what ? More people could have gotten killed stupidly like your precious Prometheus ?
This scene is like if we had to explore one of the moons of the gas giants. That's why I love _Alien_ : it just seems so much more realistic as to what space travel would be in comparison to something like _Star Trek_ .
Well one is thriller sci-fi horror the other is a sci-fi action. Both have their good qualities. I was watching Aliens on my families 4k tv with surround sound last week and once the action reved up everyone was on the edge of their seat.
Aliens, in my opinion was the perfect sequel to this movie. James Cameron even admits to try and recreate the atmosphere and creepy mystery of the original would have been a mistake so he took the other way and I believe executed it brilliantly. It's the movies after Aliens that depart too much from what made the first 2 movies special and now the Alien and franchise has become a bit of a joke.
@@tom.k7616 I will be watching the theatre cut this week of Alien and am looking forward to it. I wish I hadn't seen Spaceballs before Alien many years ago, and spoiled the big chest buster reveal. I'd say Aliens is better on action, Alien is better on suspense and creative original story. Both fans quote to this day. Todays movies fail to replicate the cowboys in space retro feel of these films that made them so beloved, and end up using futuristic computer systems, they should use green/black IMO anyway. The magic is gone.
Somehow managed to become an interstellar space faring species but also doesn't understand rudimentary quarantine protocols when encountering alien organics always gets me smh
Prometheus got it wrong. The ship was designed by Giger as a mockery of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars and the two prongs were supposed to face forwards.
The music, theatrical atmosphere and special effects are great and timeless. I love the tranquil scene with a full moon )at the beginning) being gradually pierced by the ensuing terror that is about to engulf these hapless explorers. However, the story plot has holes. In today's reality, you will always send a drone or robot to investigate first before sending humans.
But they wanted to send humans to get infected and feed the creature. The point is that the Company already knew more or less what the distress call (warning) was about. Ash was the "drone or robot" that was to be the creature's minder on it's journey to Earth and into the Company's hands.
I love all the small details too. Those are what makes this movie great and utterly realistic (by the way, I belive that the scene you mention actually shows a “full sun”, instead of a “full moon”, though it is as pale as our own moon).
can someone tell me if Ash is self-aware that he is an android? In Aliens, Bishop knows he is synthetic. Does Ash know he is not a real person? It's hard to tell because in this video clip, Ash says 'shit'.
I think he's fully aware and even inclined to keep it a secret from his human counterparts. Afterall, his directive is to execute all priorities for Weylan-Yutani at the expense of human life, if necessary.
@@dnjj1845 yeah, i think it's just bad writing. it's a plot twist device inserted into the script just for the sake of the plot twist but when you view it again, his character wouldn't make sense. just like the 2002 movie Sixth Sense. that plot twist was inserted just to shock the audience but when you re-watch Sixth Sense, it just wouldn't make sense that Bruce Willis's character was a ghost all along.
The moment I would have seen the spaceship, I'm gone! Enough evidence that aliens exist, just report it back to base on Earth for some military squad to come investigate.
These Alien eggs are Organic Bioweapons for eradicating a planets surface of a specific size range of indigenous life forms. Quetzalcoatl has Military Schematics for many variations of this, since they are sometimes in Battleship Samples. This derelict alien battleship still had partial power, and a Stasis Field still kept one of the Egg Trays alive. The dumbshit human entered the stasis field, you're not supposed to do that. He got an Alien wrapped around his face for his stupidity. You got shown this movie, because some of the Alien Militaries in this Galaxy have variations of this weapon, and they can do this shit to you if they wanted to. This Galaxy is on Radio Silence, and these Aliens are leaving you alone for the most part, because you are being allowed to naturally evolve. They are waiting for a Trinity to be formed, this is the 5th Trinity that has been formed here, that's how OLD this planet is.
The queen wasn't a part of the Alien life cycle at this point. The face Hugger was the male of the species and the Chestburster/Xenomorph was the female form. It created more face-hugger eggs by cocooning paralyzed hosts and implanting larvae into them as they slowly transformed into eggs. The scene was deleted from the cinema release but restored for the Director's cut.
One thing never understood why hell company, if so worried about humans killing damn xenomorphs, is just did send ship full androids to go pick up organism facehuggers and secure ship! Why send bunch average joes to it with one android watching them!
The Company did not know everything about the Alien, just hints from the Derelict beacon. The Company sent a crew of humans as a Petri dish, to learn about the Alien life cycle and.just how dangerous is the Alien. An Android would not have caused the alien egg to open, and an Android could not have given birth to a chestburster and an adult Alien. You want to study something before you bring it back into human space. What if the adult Alien was telepathic, telekinetic and could mind control humans? By sending a crew of average joes, you can study how an alien develops in a host and the abilities of an adult Alien - however, if the Adult Alien had god-like powers, Ash could always just blow up the ship.
Secret operation and probably highly unethical. Corporations doing the kind of dodgy crap that big corporations do. The sort of thing you don't want viewed in the news media. They weren't exactly after the Nobel peace Prize.
I know Prometheus is a fucking disgrace... "Wait, don't open that! This is an alien planet! Is there AIR?! YOU DON'T KNOW!!!!" but completely unironically... (sniffs) "Seems OK to me" was legitimately the logic of Prometheus
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The most original alien ship design ever created. Something about the shape of it is just haunting. Still thinking about it to this day brought me back here.
It's the odd lack of symmetry and any recognizable features like propulsion systems, windows, etc. It's just not a vehicle that human beings would ever build. Utterly brilliant design from Giger.
Totally agree. One of the most innovative and haunting designs of all time. Its sheer size, obvious asymmetry and organic appearance always give me the creeps. It almost looks like another character, a long dead giant that foreshadows the horrors to come. Add to that the brutal and hellish environment of LV426 (world-building at its finest) and you come up with cinematic perfection.
If you like H.R Giger style you can take a look at game DarkSeed and its sequel. A lot of his vibes there.
@@Plathismo You can say similar things about Xenomorph. Lack of eyes, very long head, the way facehuggers plants the embrio in host body ...sexual subtexts and horror like nothing else you seen, nothing you can compare this to.
The fact that it isn't a conventional sci-fi ufo or anything in the movies before makes it all the more strange and creepy. Almost alien...
This scene honestly hasn't aged a day. The 'found-footage' elements in particular are really well implemented
I think it’s suppose to be a live feed back to the ship
@@brandonb3174Yeah, in time. This is a teenagers imagination of the original.
@@badlaamaurukehu Huh?
It's like how if we found a real alien ship and were about to go inside it
Absolutely incredible, but also unspeakably horrifying
Can confirm: saw the movie's 45 anniversary in the cinema last week.
Alien is a masterpiece! It's just absolutely flawless. Just how it establishes the mood, tone and atmosphere is another level. You can tell that this film was a labour of love.
It actually does have a couple minor flaws. It's all good though. My favorite movie of all time. Anything you love, you forgive for its imperfections. Love in spite of, and because of.
@@darioinfini What flaws are you thinking of? The two that bothered me were no mention of artificial gravity and the fact that the chestburster grew to the size of a man without apparent food source.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 You know that scene where Ash beats the crap out of Ripley? He knocks her out and he's standing there twitching as the cameraman slowly walks around him. And he walks straight back into the hanging decoration which appears in full camera view and is now twinkling, which catches Ash's attention. It's a spooky creepy scene, but it's an error.
Also the whole extended procedure to get into Mother's chamber but when Ripley is "getting her own answers", Ash suddenly appears without all the hoopla, like he quietly was able to gain access without the button presses, door whooshes, spinning chair, etc.
Other small nits. Things you only notice after thousands of watchings LOL. Don't care, love the film.
@@darioinfiniAh, yeah I have always wondered how Ash just 'appeared' in the computer room like that. Totally great from a dramatic standpoint, but unbelievable. Not sure I understand what you mean about the twinkle thing but I'll rewatch it. I thought of another: the way the alien grabs Dallas looked pretty amateurish. I much preferred Lambert, Parker's and Brett's deaths; less is almost always more.
I have been loving all these behind the scenes/deep dive videos on Alien lately. It's an undisputed masterpiece and aside from very few mistakes a true science fiction film.
"We've gone this far, we must go on.... we have to go on...."
This scene... those words.... always gives me chills. RIP Kane. RIP John Hurt. I loved everyone in this cast. Half of them are gone now. Greatest scifi horror movie ever made.
I'd say it's up there with 2001 A Space Odyssey, if slightly less cerebral. Makes up for it in cosmic horror.
Kane is honestly such an overlooked character... he's the sacrificial lamb but just as important as the rest of the crew and part of the literal catalyst for the entire film. He was one of the ones who most did not deserve to die and especially not like that. John Hurt was PERFECT, he was a phenomenal actor RIP and pancreatic cancer is a bitch. The scene where he wakes up from the Facehugger is such incredible acting... those facial expressions. So many people who were so instrumental to Alien are gone now, not just the 4 cast members... Helen Horton (Mother voice), Baleji Badejo (guy in Alien suit), O'Bannon + Shusett, HR Giger, Carlo Rambaldi, John Mollo (costume designer), Jerry Goldsmith - literally everyone involved is/was legendary and may they rest in peace. Oh and Jonesy cats.
This scene sends chills down my spine
In theater, it was DAMN scary! I have the soundtrack still too. Play in 3d man!
@@charleswilson7371 This movie has no soundtrack
Mine too. Especially the music, and the subtle quieting of the storm that was roaring when they left the ship.its as if the weather was holding its breath.
Masterful film making. The first sight of The Derelict is the first time most of the audience would have been exposed to Giger's biomechanical design; a dark, decaying, grotesque, vaguely phallic parody of The Millennium Falcon. lambert wants to turn back. Kane wants to press on. Dallas tries to keep them together. The three of them trudge forward, the shots, cuts and sound-score synchronised like a slow, heavy heartbeat. Tension and menace and a sense of an encounter with something "alien" in every sense of the word.
Got to hand it to Ridley Scott and his production crew. Sheer brilliance.
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For me, the genius of the derelict design lies in its lack of symmetry. Human beings would never build a ship that looked like that. It just looks wrong. You have no idea which end is up or which direction it would travel in. Utterly brilliant.
But the story line and script were not Scott's. Dan O'Banon et al had already been doing several revisions (years earlier) and 'Star Beast' was the original title by the time R Scott was brough in to take the helms. All the elements of that movie were original, masterfully crafted and left all the important bits hidden, yet gave hints in plane sight to add to the mystery and awe (that blue mist for example). The fact that the Space Jocky was described as 'being fossilized', or that the pilot and the seat were fused together, the whole 'biomechanical' aesthetics and concept was based upon 1970's Sci-Fi lore. (no one here is probably old enough to remember the amazing monthly magazine called Omni? Well these kinds of concepts were often discussed and many artists, sci-Fi authors and real scientists were regular guests.
That movie just took Sci-Fi to another level that has not yet been reacher nor breached, nor will it be in our lifetimes, imho.
Watched the movie in 1979 when it first came out at the movie theater. I just graduated from Merced High School .It scared the blank out of me.I had to cover my eyes a few times.
This is my favorite scene of the movie. Such perfection in atmosphere and world building/suspense
Gerry Goldsmith's fabulous score blends so well with the movie. Thank you for posting!
The sound track is sheer terror for me. There is just something so unnerving and eerie and beautiful about it. Creeps the hell out of me
I remember watching this scene as a kid still scares the hell out of me.
i can still remember the chestbuster scene, i was 6 years old when i first saw it
@@merdefilms3837 Glad I saw this movie the first time when I was 18. No childhood trauma to ruin the experience lol.
You had terrible parents if they let you watch this before you were 16
The atmosphere (pun intended), the music, the design... utterly impeccable. No extraterrestrial landscape in film has ever been so unsettling and inhospitable.
LV426 was incredibly well done. A truly alien world and full of details (starting with its location, beyond the Outer Rim, even far away for 22nd century standards): brutal winds, extremely dense and cloudy atmosphere, a sun that barely shines like our moon… man, those shots in the distance where you can see the clouds moving, the ever present sound of the wind blowing (if in the background), those weird-shaped, battered lava rocks or even the volcanic gas emanations… not to mention the geniality of making it a moon orbiting a gas giant. Everything is just amazing.
@@johnlocke5585 Somehow looks like an actual moon of our Solar System : Titan or Triton !
The music adds to the atnosphere of the derelict ship.
This scene is the very definition of sci-fi.
After visiting Giger's museum in Switzerland...it's pretty apparent that the derelict was once a living organism. What they find here is the skeleton. Prometheus offended me in so many ways...but their lack of imagination for the ship and the engineers, was perhaps their biggest crime. Alien really is a genius piece of film making.
Well said.
I watched Prometheus once (complete disaster) and now refuse to watch anything beyond Alien 3.
What if then the space jockey was biologically fused to this spaceship to control it as the brains of a vast organism.
You could be correct. I like to think the engineers built the ship on the remains of some gigantic monsters, it will explain the organic outlook, and engineers live inside this body like parasites in a dead body.
Well, didn't you hear? The pilot was growing out of the chair.@@jerrycoob4750
The best film ever. Alien will always be my personal favorite. There's not gonna be another great Alien film after Aliens.
I actually think there will never be a great film after Alien. Aliens doesn’t hold a candle to this film. While aliens is very good, it has more flaws that people attribute to it.
Aliens is the Micheal Bay of the franchise. I liked it but I think Resurrection, Prometheus and even covenant was better. I like the scifi wonderment and lore, not redundant horror slasher shi.
@@holisterbruxly4554 The first two films will always be the best. Alien 3 was also good. They don't make movies like this anymore.
@@Bates1960 Alien 3 was the worst
@@ctr7161 The first two films will always be the best. Alien 3 wasn't one of the best sequels also resurrection.
I like how the true villain of "Alien" isn't the alien or even Ash but the company.
@@Norcat10 *Corporationism
Exactly. Exactly.
Agreed, the alien is just following it’s nature.
@@ALJ9000 true. Capitalism isn’t bad, albeit not perfect either, but whoever runs it can have an impact on whether the outcome is positive or negative.
@@Crazylegoman3791 Dude, literally any system can be corrupted by tuning the people running the system. Socialism, capitalism, communism, all of it. None of them are inherently corrupted, though I guess some have the tendency to be corrupted.
Ridley Scott is such a freaking visual master. Hey turns every scene in every one of his films into a work of art .
Good job making it so poorly lit. A planetoid on the outer part of its solar system would be frigid and in perpetual twilight. It definitely adds to the creepiness of the scene. I love John Hurt's sudden "We have to go on!" like he must meet his doom.
This was visceral film making. I was utterly fascinated by that ship well before learning about the artist responsible thanks to Alien 3.
He brought back the essence after the second outing made it too clinical.
Lambert: "Let's get out of here."
There was so much foreboding up until the facehugger attacked. Everything felt doomed about this mission. When the atmosphere speaks for itself, you know you've got a good movie.
The score, in all its simplicity, does TONS for the mood. The whole film, for all its detailed aesthetic, is basically very simple. And it works miracles.
The ambiance and music... just gives you such an uneasy feeling
The fuzzy, static-ridden video feed of the alien ship always creeps me out.
Cinematics and just the fine work makes it unique and almost real
The music is perfect!
Absolutely great film.
The late Ian Holme as Ash RIP. That is 3 actors now who have died from the original Alien movie...John Hurt as Cain Harry Dean Stanton as Brett and now Isn Holme. Alien is one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever...wish Scott hadn't fucked it up with Prometheus and Covenant.
Now Yaphet Kotto too. I suspect Tom Skerritt is next.
Happy Alien Day 2021 to everyone!!!! :D I love this movie!!!! :D
First movie i was 16, it was like a religious awakening when seeing the first one, I watched it 9 times in a few weeks, as soon anybody said they were going to watch i did to!
The first half of Alien is a masterpiece.
Both halfs of the movie are masterpiece
And the second alien movie too
Yeah I think the rest of the movie kinda ends up hitting some cliches. Still scary in parts but seemed like they weren't so sure about what to do like with this first half.
'we must go on, we have to go on'
The budget for this film was 11 million dollars.
Let that sink in.
11 million
and it destroys any other movie made in the franchise for the last 45 years.
11 million back then in 1979 wasn't a small amount though. In today's money, that would be 50 million. But I get what you're saying.
Possibly the most eerie scene on any film ever made the music chilling but what a film way ahead of its time
It is fantastic this is one of the best parts of the movie the discovery
Agreed. I was watching a low quality video of the full movie and had to look up this specific set to fully enjoy the experience.
Very good special effects
A fantastic movie. It hasn't dated at all.
Everything after aliens 2 just doesn't exist on my universe
I saw the first 3 films. After that I wasn't interested...I think they should have kept it at 3 films...
@@laraschauble The third one was bad.
prometheus is a incredible movie
@hardstyle905 No smaller than your feeble mind incapable of accepting different opinions that don't align with your own narrative, mate.
What about "in" it?
Alien is the Dracula of the 20th century.
Awesome conclusion!
Space Dracula from the year 2122.
Kind of a “space gothic plus cosmic horror” and the Derelict is the castle!
More like “At the Mountains of Madness” of the 20th century.
That cold cold sun.
Фантастика, которая перевернула почти что всё и в сторону серьёзности и в плане эстетики и в плане поднимаемых и затрагиваемых тем именно в кино. Понятно, что и посерьёзней темы уже все затронуты были в литературной фантастике ещё с ребежа 60-х. Но именно в кино - именно - эта работа.
This movie, in my opinion, is quite the masterpiece. The film makers saw the huge potential to make money by making it a series, however, and it was launched. In my opinion, this movie should have been it. No Aliens, or Alien vs. Prometheus, etc. This movie made a huge impact just by itself and it should have been the first and final chapter on the subject. Anyone else agree?
@@spoopy9689 Cameron abandoned Giger's explanation of the Alien life cycle and totally wrecked the story. He wanted to do Heinlein's Starship Troopers using xenomorphs, and that's what he did.
As far as I'm concerned that's pretty much how it is. I will also admit i love the way they used certain abandoned elements of the original Alien story to make Prometheus, but nothing comes close to the first movie and all the sequels suck. Including Cameron's Starship Troopers inspired movie.
Alien is a flawless masterpiece and is the gold standard for horror films. Aliens was a good movie, but it was of a completely different genre than the original: an action film rather than a pure horror film. Everything after Aliens in the series was pure trash.
'Aliens' is great and brings some nice emotional closure to Ripley's story, but I agree that the original is a timeless masterpiece that didn't need any sequels. And if sacrificing 'Aliens' is the price of never having had to endure Alien3, Resurrection, AvP, Prometheus and Covenant... then, yeah, I'd probably make that trade.
0:45 about the best mate painting of movie history
That was a miniature. The matte was the cargo hold with the eggs.
Out there in a vast space of our own unfathomable galaxy were not alone never
think i was 12 when i first saw this, i wasnt scared once watching it, i was just in complete ore of how brilliant the affects were
I think that Lambert was totally on point and quite right; they should have just returned back aboard the Nostromo, at that point (when three of them were walking on the surface of the celestial body), regardless of contractual stipulation (total forfeiture of shares/salary).
Would have made for a very short and uneventful movie Greg, lol.
@@martinharris5017 Yep; you are quite right, indeed. The movie would have been such a dud, if those such of Lambert's pleas had been adhered.
The ship is a giant alien uterus.
"prometheus, are you seeing this?"
I would say fuck my shares im not going down there.
Parker and Brett approve. ;)
You realize that the moment they actually saw the ship, they had fulfilled their contractual obligations. All they had to do was make sure it wasn't going anywhere, then report back and let the company send a properly trained and equipped expedition.
No, the company wanted a specimen one way or the other. Ash would have seen to it.
@CAS671 The company could have had lay claim to a ship built with alien technology containing hundreds of specimens of an exotic species while their layers kept their competitors locked out, and they decided instead to risk immense legal retribution for just one specimen?
Either the board of directors were so stupid they should have run the company into the ground within a year, or Special Order 937 was the idea of someone a bit further down the chain of command.
I like this scene!
Alien Isolation recreated this scene perfectly
It's embarassing how Scott has failed to replicate completely the tension and mystery of this film, and instead thought androids with god complex and idiotic crew are the way this franchise should go.
Edit : Given how the fans of these movies have room temperature IQ, no wonder we got them.
I don’t think either of those things could necessarily be attributed to Scott. The larger scale world building began with James Cameron in Aliens, and both Scott and Cameron conceived Prometheus. So unless I’m missing something it seems like those themes were more of Cameron’s brain child when you weigh their creative style
@@miles6305 Cameron had no say in Prometheus. It was Scott and that talentless Jar Jar Abrams cronie, Damon Lindelof.
If the cat's out of the bag, you cannot put it back in. Aliens are not frightnening anymore, now that they are in the superstar-league of film monsters. Nevertheless, I found Prometheus to be a very good movie, as it hints at abigger context and not just focused on another rampage of aliens. And the nostromo command crew are idiots as well:
1. No captain joins an away mission, in order to evade hierarchy conflicts in an emergency situation.
2. Kane inspects into the egg-cave alone.
3. the captain is OK with breaking quarantine protocol endangering crew, ship and cargo just because he looses grip on his emotions.
4. Dallas lets others question his authority in his presence twice (Ripley/Parker) without any reaction.
5. Dallas goes alien hunting alone - no wonder the creature got him.
@@sigurdkaputnik7022 This comment reeks of so much stupidity, it's hard to tell whether it's hilarious or embarassing.
By your assbackwards "logic", then there shouldn't be any Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Predator because they're too recognizable. What nonsense is that ?
The moment you said Prometheus is a very good movie is when you lost any credibility. Yes, it has interesting themes, but it doesn't go beyond that. It's a hollow, pretentious yet super generic movie that relies so desperatedly on sequel bait. The "hints at a bigger context" never pay off because the movie AND its sequel are too lazy to delve into them. The Engineers are nothing but a generic evil alien race with no real motivation. I find it hilarious that you praise Prometheus for not being just focused on alien rampage, when it does EXACTLY that and with at least 3 different types of alien within the same movie. Double standards much ?
@@sigurdkaputnik7022 And your "points" against Alien are complete strawmen arguments.
1. According to what ? By your logic, then Neil Armstrong shouldn't have landed on the Moon.
2. Okay, that stupid, but these, unlike Prometheus, aren't scientists, they're blue collar workers, space truck drivers, delivering ore to Earth. And even then, how being accompanied would have helped ? In fact, Dallas and Lambert could have also got infected that way.
3. Now you're contraddicting yourself, first you accuse Dallas of leaving his post, now you accuse him of trying to override protocols to save a crewmember. And besides, Ash was the one who let him in, on purpose.
4. They're not military or scientists, plus if a crew is experienced enough, you do listen to others for advice, and again.....Weren't you just complaining about him not respecting protocols that said crewmembers were reminding him of ?
5. He had a flamethrower, crewmembers had to check the scanner, and so what ? More people could have gotten killed stupidly like your precious Prometheus ?
Thìs was the first film I watched on a VHS tape recorder
Same here, watched it at my uncle's house on the Betamax he just got.
Those glitches only ad to the whole seen, making it even more artsy.
Observe and educate children This is the rationale behind not touching extraterrestrial objects on a far-off alien world.
1979
This scene is like if we had to explore one of the moons of the gas giants. That's why I love _Alien_ : it just seems so much more realistic as to what space travel would be in comparison to something like _Star Trek_ .
Imo Aliens can't touch this movie
Well one is thriller sci-fi horror the other is a sci-fi action. Both have their good qualities. I was watching Aliens on my families 4k tv with surround sound last week and once the action reved up everyone was on the edge of their seat.
Aliens, in my opinion was the perfect sequel to this movie. James Cameron even admits to try and recreate the atmosphere and creepy mystery of the original would have been a mistake so he took the other way and I believe executed it brilliantly. It's the movies after Aliens that depart too much from what made the first 2 movies special and now the Alien and franchise has become a bit of a joke.
@@SignOfTheTimes008 yeah can't help but agree with that
@@tom.k7616 I will be watching the theatre cut this week of Alien and am looking forward to it. I wish I hadn't seen Spaceballs before Alien many years ago, and spoiled the big chest buster reveal. I'd say Aliens is better on action, Alien is better on suspense and creative original story. Both fans quote to this day. Todays movies fail to replicate the cowboys in space retro feel of these films that made them so beloved, and end up using futuristic computer systems, they should use green/black IMO anyway. The magic is gone.
Probably the first use of BODY CAM FOOTAGE.
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Ash says “shit” under his breath and runs his hands with anxiety. Very human.
Ridley Scott has messed up the franchise to the point that it's just unwatchable.
This shit gives the Blair Witch nightmares.
I like very much alien3❤❤❤❤❤
1:03 is the shot.
Somehow managed to become an interstellar space faring species but also doesn't understand rudimentary quarantine protocols when encountering alien organics always gets me smh
maybe because the have trained and ingrained in their minds that they were just commercial flights.
Ash did it on purpose because he had orders to obtain a living specimen. Dallas and Lambert were probabely in shock an dacted irrational
I was think about P=NP. And I suddenly was wanted see again this scene...
Just like in Mario Bava's 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965)!
energy
Only in Prometheus that the audience can be certain of The Derelict's bow and stern.
Prometheus got it wrong. The ship was designed by Giger as a mockery of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars and the two prongs were supposed to face forwards.
knowing that alien life can be hostile, it is not wise to send human to make first contact .
They didn't even know dude was an android
This scene with the background music always made me cringe with fear and excitement.
Самый крутой эпизод наряду с остальными такими же
Вхождение в тайну Жутко таинственно интересно это начало конца экипажа Ностромо
The music, theatrical atmosphere and special effects are great and timeless. I love the tranquil scene with a full moon )at the beginning) being gradually pierced by the ensuing terror that is about to engulf these hapless explorers. However, the story plot has holes. In today's reality, you will always send a drone or robot to investigate first before sending humans.
But they wanted to send humans to get infected and feed the creature. The point is that the Company already knew more or less what the distress call (warning) was about. Ash was the "drone or robot" that was to be the creature's minder on it's journey to Earth and into the Company's hands.
I love all the small details too. Those are what makes this movie great and utterly realistic (by the way, I belive that the scene you mention actually shows a “full sun”, instead of a “full moon”, though it is as pale as our own moon).
This is 1979
Leading them to their deaths
Play Alien Isolation and will fill the same way
Bensin Brennstoff Turbinen Diese Weltraum Raumschiff Flugdauer 4.9. Milliarden Lichtjahre
Wise words: "Lets get out of here."
can someone tell me if Ash is self-aware that he is an android? In Aliens, Bishop knows he is synthetic. Does Ash know he is not a real person? It's hard to tell because in this video clip, Ash says 'shit'.
When dallas says will you just listen to the man to parker refering to ash, ash gives dallas a look like what did you call me?
I think he's fully aware and even inclined to keep it a secret from his human counterparts. Afterall, his directive is to execute all priorities for Weylan-Yutani at the expense of human life, if necessary.
He drinks "milk" at one point which is probably his white synthetic blood
Does he eat regular food? If not how could the crew not notice?
@@dnjj1845 yeah, i think it's just bad writing. it's a plot twist device inserted into the script just for the sake of the plot twist but when you view it again, his character wouldn't make sense. just like the 2002 movie Sixth Sense. that plot twist was inserted just to shock the audience but when you re-watch Sixth Sense, it just wouldn't make sense that Bruce Willis's character was a ghost all along.
"Let's get out of here."
Let's hope they never try and explain any of this amiright??
I always thought that land scape piece of rock in the back ground looks like a person
Maybe the Alien who was born in the space jockey.
When?
@@flutterhuggeruniverse6944around 0.33 before they get to the derelict
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ALIEN 2023(THE SPACEJOCKEY)!!!!!
Lets get out here. Should’ve followed her advice
They had to go on. They must go on.
If they went back like she sure we wouldn’t have a movie
The moment I would have seen the spaceship, I'm gone! Enough evidence that aliens exist, just report it back to base on Earth for some military squad to come investigate.
Yeah, take the xenos to the earth.
Lambert expressed the thinking of the audience, "Let's get the hell out of here!"
Tony Chiellini should have been on this film.
How did the ship get to and crash on the planetoid? Hopefully an Alien Covenant sequel will explain this and bring the series full circle.
Isnt it obvious that Space jockey (big pilot) was inficated by one of the facehuggers and lost control over the ship?
The derelict crew were also victims of a brutal socioeconomic system. The sequels after 2 fucked this all up
These Alien eggs are Organic Bioweapons for eradicating a planets surface of a specific size range of indigenous life forms.
Quetzalcoatl has Military Schematics for many variations of this, since they are sometimes in Battleship Samples.
This derelict alien battleship still had partial power, and a Stasis Field still kept one of the Egg Trays alive. The dumbshit human entered the stasis field, you're not supposed to do that. He got an Alien wrapped around his face for his stupidity. You got shown this movie, because some of the Alien Militaries in this Galaxy have variations of this weapon, and they can do this shit to you if they wanted to.
This Galaxy is on Radio Silence, and these Aliens are leaving you alone for the most part, because you are being allowed to naturally evolve. They are waiting for a Trinity to be formed, this is the 5th Trinity that has been formed here, that's how OLD this planet is.
Source?
Terrain seems a bit…unstable.
No readout yet if they air is breathable. And there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere.
Remember in Prometheus the ship like this falls and crashes, well is this the exact ship as well? How could that be?
It's not the same ship. Just a similar one
It’s an engineers ship yes... but not the same one from Prometheus as there’s a 30+ year gap between Prometheus and alien 1
The prometheus ship was in LV 223 planet and the alien ship was in the LV 426 planet
This is one of the 3 moons orbiting Calpamos, LV-426 aka Acheron. Prometheus land on LV-223.
DONT GO IN THERE!
So this is where the aliens came from I wonder if the queen alien was there
The queen wasn't a part of the Alien life cycle at this point. The face Hugger was the male of the species and the Chestburster/Xenomorph was the female form. It created more face-hugger eggs by cocooning paralyzed hosts and implanting larvae into them as they slowly transformed into eggs. The scene was deleted from the cinema release but restored for the Director's cut.
@@martinharris5017 thanks for the info bro
Looks like the same ship from the prequel.
Same sort.
That’s a relief. For a second there, I thought you said, “Sort of.”
One thing never understood why hell company, if so worried about humans killing damn xenomorphs, is just did send ship full androids to go pick up organism facehuggers and secure ship!
Why send bunch average joes to it with one android watching them!
The Company did not know everything about the Alien, just hints from the Derelict beacon. The Company sent a crew of humans as a Petri dish, to learn about the Alien life cycle and.just how dangerous is the Alien. An Android would not have caused the alien egg to open, and an Android could not have given birth to a chestburster and an adult Alien. You want to study something before you bring it back into human space. What if the adult Alien was telepathic, telekinetic and could mind control humans? By sending a crew of average joes, you can study how an alien develops in a host and the abilities of an adult Alien - however, if the Adult Alien had god-like powers, Ash could always just blow up the ship.
Secret operation and probably highly unethical. Corporations doing the kind of dodgy crap that big corporations do. The sort of thing you don't want viewed in the news media. They weren't exactly after the Nobel peace Prize.
We went from THIS to the retardation of Prometheus... "Hey, we're on an alien planet, but the air seems breathable. Let's take our helmets off!!"
I know Prometheus is a fucking disgrace... "Wait, don't open that! This is an alien planet! Is there AIR?! YOU DON'T KNOW!!!!" but completely unironically... (sniffs) "Seems OK to me" was legitimately the logic of Prometheus
As bad as prometheus was, it gave us a much better look at a fascinating starship design.
А ето привет юля курумкан сбербанк а кредиты но проценты мтс
They overhumanised ash for the sake of fooling the audience.